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- Joel wrote this as a lullaby for his 7-year-old daughter Alexa Ray in response to her question, "Where do we go when we die?"
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"The Downeaster 'Alexa'" is a song by Billy Joel from his eleventh studio album Storm Front (1989), released as the album's fourth single. It peaked at No. 57 in the Billboard Hot 100 and was included on Joel's Greatest Hits Vol. 3 album in 1997.
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Billy Joel wrote and dedicated this song to the fisherman, clammers and crabbers of The Great South an Peconic Bays. Actually despite the personality of a wild pig he has been rather generous to numerous causes.
Feb 15, 2012 · During a Q&A at the University of Pennsylvania in 2001, Billy was asked about the song “The Downeaster ‘Alexa,'” just before some technical difficulties at the venue.
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Joel wrote this as a lullaby for his 7-year-old daughter Alexa Ray in response to her question, "Where do we go when we die?" In 2016, Joel told Sirius XM what he told Alexa when she first asked him about life after death: "What I told her was, 'After you die, you go into other people's hearts and they take you with them through their lives ...
At one point Billy had underwritten a plan by his young boat captain to use his boat (Alexa Ray, a 46' custom downeaster) as a commercial operation. As the two developed the plan, it became increasingly clear that the challenges facing a small commercial operation were greater than he had imagined.
Apr 28, 2021 · Billy Joel Had the Sweetest Reaction to Hearing Daughter Alexa Ray's Song 'Seven Years'. Alexa Ray gives PEOPLE (The TV Show!) correspondent Jeremy Parsons an inside look at her creative...
Apr 21, 2021 · 35-year-old Alexa Ray Joel - daughter of singer Billy Joel and his model ex-wife Christie Brinkley - has released her new song 'Seven Years', and it's a gorgeous piano ballad. Alexa performed the song on US television earlier this week, and it's expected to be part of a new album to be released later this year.
